Around the World--the Kindness Journey is a collection of vignettes and photographs from my travels around the world seeking to promote cultural bridge-building, understanding, and KINDNESS to various people groups. In December 2011, I began solo backpacking around the world and also launched this lifetime project. As I continue to undertake this journey, I also am seeking to locate and identify kindness-giving people and agencies that are reaching out to their communities in a variety of ways. This is my attempt to simply try to understand others by accepting them where they are and as they...